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The Big Circles of Jordan

The Big Circles are a collection of
12 giant circular stone structures spread across parts of Jordan and
Syria. Despite they being over 2,000 years old, very little
archaeological attention has been given to them and they remain largely
unknown, even among local experts.

The circles were discovered in
1920 by a British pilot named Lionel Rees when he flew across the
deserts of what would become Jordan. The pictures Rees took of these
immense stone circles became some of the earliest aerial archaeological
photographs of these structures. For reasons unknown, Rees findings were
ignored and promptly forgotten. It took another 60 years before anyone
noticed them again. It was only in the last 10 years, they have started
to gain more attention through the work of David Kennedy, a researcher
at the University of Western Australia.